curl : client for urls

a unix command line tool for transferring data to and from a server

scripts/curlChannel.py: curl -X PUT "[<https://api.channel.io/open/v5/users/@user_id>](<https://api.channel.io/open/v5/users/@user_id>)"

-O : save file

-o newfilename.txt: save file with new name

-L redirects the HTTP URL if a 300 error code occurs

-C resumes a previous file transfer if it times out before completion.

curl -O [<https://websitename.com/datafilename.txt>](<https://websitename.com/datafilename.txt>)

Wget : World Wide Web and get

• used to download data from HTTP(S) and FTP
• better than curl at downloading multiple files recursively

brew install wget

-b: Go to background immediately after startup

-q: Turn off the Wget output

-c: Resume broken download (i.e.continue getting a partially-downloaded file)